Recent progress in optical switches based on planar lightwave circuit technology

Author

Okuno, Masayuki ; Takahashi, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. This paper reviewed recent advances in silica-based thermo optic switches (TOSWs) including NxN matrix switches (up to 16x16), 1xN switches (up to 1x128), an NxN switching sub-system (128x128), optical add drop multiplexing (OADM) integrated in TOSWs, and a low power consumption TOSW. Further advances in TOSW devices will contribute greatly to the construction of optical networks.

Keywords

integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical switches; thermo-optical devices; NxN matrix switches; NxN switching sub-system; low power consumption; optical add drop multiplexing; optical fibre networks; planar lightwave circuit technology; silica-based thermo optic switches; Energy consumption; Insertion loss; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical devices; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Switching circuits; Switching systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

All-Optical Networking: Existing and Emerging Architecture and Applications/Dynamic Enablers of Next-Generation Optical Communications Systems/Fast Optical Processing in Optical Transmission/VCSEL and

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7378-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2002.1027545

Filename

1027545